FW: Please pass on this news story to anyone you know in the industry. It has tremendous ramifications for all of us.

[Guest guest]

Please forward the following to everyone you know at news agencies who will

listen.

The following news story is bigger than the discovery of HIV and no one is doing

it. The public needs to know about XMRV.

There is a newly discovered retrovirus called XMRV getting a lot of attention

from the NIH and CDC. This virus was first discovered in patients who had

prostate cancer and now has been found in people suffering from chronic fatigue

syndrome (CFS). Currently there is a new study concerning children with autism

and a person who is part of the study has told me it has been found in 70% of

those tested. This discovery could provide new treatment options for people

suffering from these diseases and possibly many others.

But the even bigger story is:

Is our Blood Supply being Tainted by the Newly Discovered Retrovirus XMRV?

No one is talking about how this could taint our blood bank supply. Most of

Europe, Canada, New Zealand and I believe Japan has formally stopped all CSF

patients from donating blood. However, our country is awaiting the results

from a new study being done by the NIH to determine if our blood supply could be

tainted by people who have XMRV. Is this wait and see attitude putting our

citizens in danger of getting XMRV?

I know you probably haven’t heard about this, but you should do a story on it.

You would think that several countries banning a group from blood donation would

be news worthy. Or that the third infectious human retrovirus found in American

Blood donors might cause some concern and a few more headlines. Shouldn’t

the public be more aware there is a known retrovirus in the blood supply and

that it is linked to many diseases? Too secretive I think.

Some Background info for you

Judy Mikovits, research director of Whittemore Institute at the

University of Nevada Reno, is co-author of a study just published in the journal

Science Express that identifies a strong link between XRMV Virus and chronic

fatigue syndrome.

<http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113613955> Over two

thirds of the one million people in the United States who suffer from chronic

fatigue are infected with XMRV. This study examined the blood samples from 101

chronic fatigue patients and compared them from samples of 218 healthy people.

Over 67% of chronic fatigue sufferers had XMRV compared with less than 4% of the

healthy people.

Judy Mikovits of the Whittemore Institute

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittemore__Institute> has stated that

XMRV has " almost certainly entered the U.S. blood supply system, but did not

know whether it would be susceptible to the same heat treatments that

successfully kill off the AIDS virus in blood products. " A United States

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States> federal consortium is now working

to determine the prevalence of XMRV in the blood supply and the suitability of

different detection methods. The association of XMRV and CFS reported in Science

prompted Health Canada <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Canada> , the New

Zealand Blood Service, and The Australian Red Cross Blood Service

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Red_Cross_Blood_Service> [34]

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenotropic_murine_leukemia_virus-related_virus#cit\

e_note-33> in 2010, to disallow blood donations from individuals with CFS. On

June 18th 2010, the American Association of Blood Banks

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Association_of_Blood_Banks> , recommended

actively discouraging potential donors who have been diagnosed by a physician as

having CFS from donating blood or blood components. As of November 1, 2010

people with CFS will no longer be able to donate blood in the UK.

Thanks for listening and I hope you get this info to the public.